Valdai Club

On February 25, the Moscow venue of the Valdai Club hosted a discussion titled “The Donroe Doctrine: Trump and Greenland”.

US claims to Greenland have become a major source of tension within NATO. At the very beginning of his presidential term, Donald Trump stated his intention to annex both Greenland and Canada. Following the operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, the American president has returned to these ambitions.

A heated debate over Greenland’s future is now underway. The Nordic countries and America’s NATO allies have sided with Denmark. Donald Trump, for his part, is introducing new tariffs against his opponents. As a conceptual framework for his policy, he has put forward the “Donroe Doctrine”—renaming the Monroe Doctrine, which holds the entire Western Hemisphere to be America’s sphere of influence, after himself. It is possible that, under this doctrine, the American president may revisit his claims not only regarding Greenland, but Canada as well.

What will the escalation of tensions within NATO lead to? Will Donald Trump succeed in achieving his aims with regard to Greenland? And what are the limits of solidarity among the Nordic states and the EU as a whole?

Speakers:

• Vladislav Maslennikov, Director of the Department of European Problems of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Senior Arctic Official
• Igor Istomin, Head of the Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems, MGIMO University
• Radhika Desai, Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba (Canada)
• Glenn Diesen, Professor, University of South-Eastern Norway
• Peter Slezkine, Senior Fellow and Director of the Russia Programme, Stimson Center (USA)
• Vladislav Vorotnikov, Head of the Department of History and Politics of Europe and America, Head of the Research Programme “Relations with the West in a Changing World Order”, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University
• Dmitry Novikov, Deputy Head of the Department of International Relations, HSE University

Moderator:

• Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

Working languages: Russian, English.